A Service Oriented Paradigm to Support Collaborative Product development

Collaborative product development is concerned with various experiences, knowledge, teams, tools, processes, etc. Effective communication and cooperation of these factors are the key issues that challenge the current computational architectures. A service oriented approach is proposed by us to integrate available resources from a repository in open standard. In our solution, functionality of the any computational resource is encapsulated as web services with a variety of granularities. The services are defined, registered, consumed and orchestrated in service oriented architecture (SOA). Key issues of our solution are studied. A prototype system supporting collaborative simulation is implemented to verify the feasibility of the solution. The result shows that service oriented computing is promising for collaborative product development.